Brooks, David
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Buettner, Dan
The Blue Zones kitchen : 100 recipes to live to 100

Cain, Susan
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Courtney Peppernell
Watering the soul

Dexter, Julietta
Good company : how to build a business without losing your values

Earls, Mark
Copy, copy, copy : how to do smarter marketing by using other people's ideas

Forsyth, Mark
The elements of eloquence : how to turn the perfect English phrase

Gaston, Meredith
At Home Within: A Little Book of Self-Care Wisdom

Griffiths, Madison
Tissue

Hegarty, John
Hegarty on Advertising

Hill, Jess
See what you made me do : power, control and domestic violence

Martin, Chris
May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future

Murthy, Vivek Hallegere
Together : loneliness, health and what happens when we find connection

Nagoski, Emily
Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Rosenberg, Marshall B.
Nonviolent communication : a language of life

Rubin, Rick
The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Schultz, Julianne
The idea of Australia : a search for the soul of the nation

Simmonds, Monique
The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants: An A-Z of Healing Plants and Home Remedies

John Connolly
The Land of Lost Things (2023)
Dark fantasy, gothic vibes, sequel

Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2023)
Romance + relationships, grief, heartbreakinggg

Melissa Lucashenko
Too Much Lip (2018)
Australian stories, queer, family dynamics

Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead (2022)
Family, poverty, bildungsroman

Sarah Andersen
Fangs (2020)
Romance, graphic novel

Blake Crouch
Dark Matter (2016)
Sci-fi, multiverse (Also now a series on Apple TV, it was okay but I liked the book better)

Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle (1963)
Absurdist sci-fi, hilarious

Shehan Karunatilaka
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022)
Fantasy realism, historical, queer

Martha Wells
All Systems Red (2017)
Sci-fi, AI, first in the series

Becky Chambers
A Psalm For The Wild-Built (2021)
Futures, sci-fi, heartwarming and beautiful

Becky Chambers
A Prayer For The Crown-Shy (2022)
Futures, sci-fi, heartwarming and beautiful again

Lisa Taddeo
Three Women (2019)
Relationships and womanhood, intense and striking

Hi my name is Annie,

While some may call them children’s novels these texts are truly worth a read. Enjoy:

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell.

A timeless masterpiece about finding identity and purpose, with a good helping of dragons and phoenixes mixed in.  

Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson. 

An exciting book with a missing mother, a search for identity and a good helping of magic. 

The Wintrish Girl by Melanie La’Brooy. 

A compelling book with an enchanting magical world and a girl who contests the role she has been given based on the colour of her skin and magic item in her hand.

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